Rents rising many times faster in the most ‘non-Scottish’ parts of UK

(c) Spare Room (You’d have to be Barking and Dagenham to pay this rent!) In the Guardian today: ‘The situation is worst in Barking and Dagenham, according to the official data analysed by Shelter, where average rents have jumped 42% between 2011 and 2017 while average household wages have only gone up 2%. Elmbridge in Surrey was the local authority area with the second biggest gap, with rents rising 21% while wages have dropped 15%. In Bristol, rents have climbed…